TRUTH: If people cannot see a night and day difference in you, in your life, in how you act, think, EVERYTHING….you are deceived. You are not saved. Period. Jesus NEVER leaves a sinner as He found them. And you can talk all you like…but it is what is actually objectively demonstrated and lived…and is so utterly clear, you should not have to tell people, they WILL see it. “You WILL know them by their fruit”~Jesus. Your fruit cannot be hidden…good or bad….it shows. Don’t fool yourself. No one else who knows Christ is really fooled, not for long. Your true fruit, it shows clearly. Wouldn’t the devil love it if you refused to believe this truth? Yes, yes he would.

David Platt discusses why many Christians are deceived.

He says, “Everything would be different in these mens lives, because this encounter with Jesus—everything! Which is why we know that people who profess to be Christians, but who’s lives look just like the rest of the world are deceived. All kinds of people who supposedly made a decision—prayed a prayer, signed a card, walked an aisle, accepted Jesus into their heart—but their lives don’t look any different. They say they’re a Christian, but the reality is they don’t know this Christ. Because when you know this Christ, everything begins to change in your life. I heard one preacher put it this way: Imagine I got here late this morning…then all of sudden I come running out on the stage and I say, ‘I’m sorry I’m here late…I was driving over here on the interstate and I got a flat tire and got out and fixed the flat tire, but I accidentally stepped out into the middle of the interstate and this Mac Truck hit me head on. And it hurt, but I got up, finished fixing the tire and got back in the car and drove here. So, I apologize for being late.’ If this was the story I told you, you would know one of two things: 1. I’m lying 2. I’m very deceived. And you know that, because when somebody gets hit by a Mac Truck, they look different than they did before.
Based on that reality, I’m pretty sure I’m on safe ground in saying when a person comes face-to-face with God in flesh the Savior King and Sovereign Lord and He reached down into your heart and saves you from the clutches of sin and self you’re going to look different. You’re going to look really different. Everything changes when you follow this King!”

Bella….stay in the word of God an in prayer. We get to know WHO God is, what He is like, and how his Spirit changes us through His word dear one. And what you read…obey it. We are not saved because of works, we are saved FOR good works in Christ. The more we obey Him, the more He changes us into His likeness, the more we are so unlike the world that the world hates us. There is no “veil” to go behind…just our growth in knowing the God of the bible, and our Lord, the biblical Jesus Christ. We can only do that through our repentance and surrender to Christ as LORD, and not merely Savior. While He is both, if He is not Lord, He is not Savior. Will keep you in prayer dear one. Make sure the gospel you have heard is the right one, the only one, the one that saves…and then just keep your eyes on Christ and your heart in His word. ❤

I know. We receive the Holy Spirit when we repent and believe and surrender ourselves to the biblical Christ as LORD and not merely Savior. We look different as we live in Him, getting to know Him through His word and as we obey Him. That is biblical salvation. If something in you is missing either, I suggest you go right back to the gospel, beloved. The biblical Jesus Christ makes a new creation out of all those reborn in Him, and we do not have to make ourselves “look” like anything…HE changes us from the inside out.

So, just to make your election certain, as God tells us all to do…please indulge me as well as obey the word, and do that, okay? Here is the only gospel that saves. Anything added to or taken away from this is a false gospel. And as you know, Paul (and therefore, God, as all of His word is given by Him) says another gospel is cursed…damned…as well as those who follow it and not the one true gospel that saves. And God adds all the curses of His full wrath to those who add one thing to it (Revelation). Which means…no extra-biblical “revelation” and no other form of the gospel. ~AGM ❤

“Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? – Luke 18:8”

"One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple." Psalm 27:4

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. –Matthew 7:15-23, KJV”

“If anyone advocates a different doctrine, and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. –1 Timothy 6:3-5”

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